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Clinton Met With Obama About Role In New Administration — A Democratic official confirms to the Huffington Post that Sen. Hillary Clinton met with President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday to discuss her role in the new administration. — Clinton's trip to Chicago, described in press reports as …
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What Hillary Clinton Gets Out Of A Cabinet Spot, And Other Thoughts — 1. There's was a private meeting. Contrary to what I said earlier, Rahm Emanuel wasn't in the room. He was in DC. But no one was in the room with the principals. — 2. The meeting was not a formal interview …
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Details on Hillary-Barack Meeting — ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports: President-elect Barack Obama met with Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., Thursday in Chicago to discuss the possibility of the senator becoming secretary of state. — A source with knowledge of the transition process describes the meeting as not a hard offer.
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HRC for Secretary of State: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox? — President-elect Barack Obama and his future Secretary of State? Photo by Emmanuel Dunand of AFP/Getty Images — The news that Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama huddled yesterday at the president-elect's transition headquarters …
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Hillary Clinton For Secretary Of State — That's the buzz. Marc reports that Clinton and Obama met yesterday in Chicago. For my part, I think making her secretary of state is an inspired idea. — Obama has to offer something to Clinton. She's his main threat now and rightly regards part of his victory her doing.
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Freak Show: Behind the Clinton for Secretary of State Rumors
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Bernie Sanders Joins Leahy In Demanding Ouster Of Lieberman From Chairmanship — Okay, we now have a second Senator who's stepped up and joined Senator Patrick Leahy in calling on Democrats to boot Joe Lieberman from his plum slot atop the Homeland Security committee.
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Leahy Becomes First Senator To Demand Lieberman's Ouster From Homeland Security Committee — We now have our first Dem Senator who has come on the record and called for Joe Lieberman to be booted from his plum spot on the Homeland Security committee. — In an interview with Vermont Public Radio today …
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Senator Leahy publicly opposes Lieberman chairmanship
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“THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:” Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. “There's nothing going on. I'm with the 10th Mountain Division, and about half of the guys I'm with haven't fired their weapons …
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BOBBY JINDAL STEPS UP. — The Republican ticket this year was notable for refusing to run on any policy innovations or substantive accomplishments whatsoever. In retrospect, most people think that a mistake. And so you're going to see a real effort in the GOP over the next few years …
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Obama Hires Jarrett for Senior Role — Nearly two decades ago, Valerie Jarrett hired a young lawyer named Michelle Obama for a job at Chicago's City Hall. Now President-elect Barack Obama has hired Ms. Jarrett for a senior role in the White House. — Ms. Jarrett's role will be threefold …
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McCain-Obama Meeting Set in Motion by Graham
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A Ticket to The Hague for Dick Cheney? — Gene Burns is one of the nation's most popular talk radio hosts. For years he has dismissed accounts of torture; America, he has said, does not torture. But last night, after watching Torturing Democracy and realizing that he had not understood …
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Dyre Portents, War in Context, Big Brass Blog, Liberty Street, Booman Tribune, The Impolitic and The Heretik
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Vote tally trend favors Begich for Senate — SENATE RACE: With Stevens strongholds still uncounted, leader isn't celebrating yet. — scockerham@adn.com — More than half the absentee and questioned ballots still to be counted in Alaska's U.S. Senate race come from areas of the state …
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Party Loyalist — Do you see the election results as a repudiation of your politics? — Our new president-elect won one and a half points more than George W. Bush won in 2004, and he did so, in great respect, by adopting the methods of the Bush campaign and conducting a vast army of persuasion to identify and get out the vote.
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Campaign Bogeyman William Ayers Talks to ‘GMA’ — 'Good Morning America's' Chris Cuomo Grills '60s Radical Bill Ayers — William Ayers, the 1960s radical whose violent history became a focal point in the 2008 presidential election, said today that the Republicans unfairly “demonized” …
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More Allegations of Misconduct in Alabama Governor Case — Next month in Atlanta, a federal court will hear the high-profile appeal of former Alabama governor Don E. Siegelman, whose conviction on corruption charges in 2006 became one of the most publicly debated cases to emerge from eight years …
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Lungren will challenge Boehner for top GOP spot — Rep. Dan Lungren announced Friday that he will challenge Rep. John Boehner for House Republican leader. — Lungren (Calif.) is considered a longshot to unseat Boehner (Ohio), who moved quickly after last week's election to shore up support in the GOP Conference.
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Palin left out of RGA leadership.» — In the wake of the Republican Governors Association (RGA) convention this week in Miami, many GOP governors were reluctant to embrace Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as the party's leader or presidential candidate for 2012.
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Michael Steele: ‘Obama campaign played the race card beautifully’ — Says McCain Should Have Hit Obama on Rev. Wright ... Promising this would be “the first of a series of conversations” with bloggers, former Maryland LG Michael Steele held a blogger conference call today to discuss his bid for RNC Chairman.
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The Libertarian Temptation — A reader who, if not disgruntled, is certainly very far from being gruntled: … Hmm. As the parent of two teenagers, I come out in hives when someone tells me something is “cool.” As for “sexually repressed bigoted” etc.; I thought Sarah Palin kicked …
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Bailout to Nowhere — Not so long ago, corporate giants with names like PanAm, ITT and Montgomery Ward roamed the earth. They faded and were replaced by new companies with names like Microsoft, Southwest Airlines and Target. The U.S. became famous for this pattern of decay and new growth.